2026
Who Are You in Virtual Reality? Suppressing Demographic Leakage via Progressive Adversarial Privacy.
Nasim Ahmed, Rifatul Islam
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) · Presented at IEEE ISMAR 2026
Publications
Publications & manuscripts
Research across extended reality, human-centered AI, privacy, security, cognitive modeling, cybersickness, and immersive-system safety.
4Journal Articles
8Conference Papers
3Workshop / Adjunct
1Under Review
15Published Works
Counts reflect the publications currently listed on this page; the published total excludes the manuscript under review.
Journals
Journal publications
2026
Not Everyone Gets Sick the Same Way: Personalized Cybersickness Prediction via Bayesian Networks with Individual Susceptibility Modeling.
Nasim Ahmed, P. Wu, K. Huang, B. Li, T. Lan, G. Tan, M. Imani, R. Islam
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) · Presented at IEEE ISMAR 2026
2026
Robust Engagement Estimation in Mixed Reality Under Cognitive Attack.
P. Wu, K. Huang, M. Zhu, Z. Zhou, J. Jiang, Nasim Ahmed, et al.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) · Presented at IEEE ISMAR 2026
2025
Human task performance and associated internal states in extended reality: a systematic review of cognitive, psychophysiological, and physiological dimensions.
Nasim Ahmed, P. Wu, K. Huang, S. Jung, H. Rheem, G. Tan, M. Imani, R. Islam
Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 6, Article 1589256 · DOI: 10.3389/frvir.2025.1589256
Under Review
Manuscripts under review
2027
NDSS 2027 (Fall Cycle)
Manuscript currently under peer review at the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium.
Status: Under Review
Proceedings
Conference & workshop publications
2026
Believe It. Engage It.: A Mixed Reality Dataset of Engagement, Cognitive Load, Physical Load, Cybersickness, and Task Performance Under Cognitive Attack.
Nasim Ahmed et al.
IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR)
2026
One Size Does Not Fit All: Personalized Cybersickness Forecasting with Asymmetric Few-Shot Meta-Learning.
Nasim Ahmed et al.
IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR)
2026
I'm Feeling Different: Uncertainty-Aware Cross-Domain Cognitive Load Prediction in Virtual Reality.
Nasim Ahmed, Rifatul Islam
ACM VRST 2026 · DOI: 10.1145/3822517.3848682
2026
Lag You Can Feel: Within-Person Links Between Latency, Performance, and Trust in Mixed Reality.
P. Wu et al., including Nasim Ahmed
XR Security 2026
2026
Obscuring the “who,” preserving the “what”: Targeted eye-tracking feature obfuscation in virtual reality for privacy–utility balance.
Nasim Ahmed, M. M. Hassan, M. M. Hossain, N. S. Shadin, X. Zhang, R. Islam
IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR)
2025
YouKnowWho: Interpretable framework for classifying gender from behavioral motion data in extended reality (XR).
N. S. Shadin, Nasim Ahmed, M. M. Hassan, R. Islam, X. Zhang
ACM MobiHoc · DOI: 10.1145/3704413.3765309
2025
Probabilistic verification of cybersickness in virtual reality through Bayesian networks.
P. Wu, Nasim Ahmed, et al.
IEEE ISMAR
2025
Personalized Bayesian networks for cybersickness prediction in virtual reality.
P. Wu, Nasim Ahmed, et al.
ACM MobiHoc
2025
Towards safer mixed reality with auditory warnings for uncontrolled indoor settings.
Nasim Ahmed, T. Choi, X. Zhang, S. Islam, R. Islam
IEEE VR Workshops
2025
Investigating the impact of context-aware collision warning modalities on dual-task performance in immersive environments.
Nasim Ahmed
IEEE ISMAR Adjunct
2023
Online judge contest rating prediction using linear regression and K-neighbors regressor.
Nasim Ahmed, R. Hasan, E. Hassan
International Conference on Engineering Research and Innovation Education (ICERIE)